Re: update and order by in 3.23.51

2003-06-28 Thread Egor Egorov
Bob Ramsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm using 3.23.51 and I'd like to update a field in a certain order. I've > got a table of images for a slide show and the format of the table is: > > image varchar(128) not null > order_number integer not null primary key > > So we might have somethin

RE: UPDATE and ORDER BY

2003-06-23 Thread martin . curmi
Thanks for all your replies. I'll have to use the 2 query approach. Regards Martin "Mike Hillyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 23/06/2003 23:22 To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "wayne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: UPDATE and ORDER BY

2003-06-23 Thread Mike Hillyer
> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 4:21 PM > To: wayne > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: UPDATE and ORDER BY > > > Hi, I left out the LIMIT 1 in the example I copied... I only want the > first occurance updated. > > > > > > > "wayne&quo

RE: UPDATE and ORDER BY

2003-06-23 Thread martin . curmi
Hi, I left out the LIMIT 1 in the example I copied... I only want the first occurance updated. "wayne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 23/06/2003 23:22 To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: UPDATE and ORDER BY

RE: UPDATE and ORDER BY

2003-06-23 Thread wayne
Have you tried it without it? I cannot seen a reason for using it... With out it all records in subscriptions will be updated with pick+1 where username='webmaster' and dbname. Wayne -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 June 2003 23:09 To: [E

Re: UPDATE and ORDER BY

2003-06-23 Thread Paul DuBois
At 23:09 +0100 6/23/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Any ideas why I get an error when i use ORDER BY in an UPDATE statement? Also is there anywhere i can lookup the error codes? UPDATE `Subscriptions` SET picks=picks+1 WHERE (username = 'webmaster' AND picksdatabasename = 'BetaTestService') ORDER

Re: RE: UPDATE and ORDER BY troubles

2001-06-05 Thread X Gogo
Well, Jeff you are right! I've just taken the wrong line from .mysql_history file. It was one of my thousands of tries to make the ORDER BY work with UPDATE. What I really try to do is ORDER BY the 'received' column, which is a timestamp. The point is if I have plenty of alarm messages which are n